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When you need to ship a car to or from Santa Clara, count on an auto transport company that gets cars where they need to be safely and on time. RoadRunner Auto Transport has over 30 years of experience delivering cars cross country, with door-to-door vehicle transport anywhere in Santa Clara, CA. Our transport coordinators handle every step, from pricing and carrier assignment to dispatch and delivery.

Whether you need a car transported in or out of the city, RoadRunner sets you up with convenient Santa Clara auto shipping at a fair price, with enclosed transport available for added protection. Call (888) 777-2123 or use our car shipping calculator to get an instant quote.

Every carrier in the network is vetted before it hauls for RoadRunner and carries its own cargo insurance, and the coordinator who prices your Santa Clara move stays your point of contact until the car is delivered. Quotes are built from what carriers are charging to run the California lanes right now, not from a national average.

Whether the car is a daily driver, a classic headed for storage, or a student's first car going to campus, the same coordinator handles open and enclosed bookings, expedited pickups, and vehicles that do not run under their own power.

The result is a 4.7-star average across more than 39,000 verified customer reviews, and one phone number, (888) 777-2123, for the quote, the booking and the day of pickup.

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Any residential or business address in Santa Clara or The Old Quad & downtown and North Santa Clara & the stadium district; the exact spot is agreed with the driver.
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May 2026

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May 2026

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October 2025

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About Santa Clara car shipping

Reliable car shipping to and from Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara is a flat, gridded city framed by State Route 237, US-101 and Interstate 880. Sunnyvale and Cupertino are its neighbors, and wide expressways cross the middle of town. For car shipping in Santa Clara, most homes and offices get a curb or driveway pickup. The Old Quad near the university, apartment complexes with low garages, and the streets around Levi's Stadium on a game day are the exceptions. In those spots, the driver picks a wider street nearby or schedules around the crowds.

An open auto carrier unloading on a residential street

Intel, Applied Materials and Nvidia relocate households to and from the city all year. The family often flies while a carrier brings the second car. Santa Clara University adds a move-in rush in late August and a move-out in May. Imported cars arrive through the Port of Oakland and are released to a bonded lot or a forwarder's yard. A carrier then takes them down the bay, in an enclosed trailer for a high-value car.

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126,603
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Pricing

What factors affect the cost to ship a car?

Several factors can affect your car shipping cost to or from Santa Clara, CA — the six below are the ones that move it most, and they pull in different directions at once: a longer lane costs more in total but less per mile, an enclosed carrier adds protection and price, and a pickup date with some give in it can cancel out a busy-season premium. The quote you get is for your exact vehicle, dates and addresses, and it covers pickup, transport and delivery with no fees added afterwards.

Prices on the busiest California corridors are on the California car shipping page. For a price on your exact vehicle transport, use the calculator or call (888) 777-2123.

Santa Clara car shipping factors
DistanceThe distance of your move from origin to destination. Longer lanes cost more in total while costing less per mile.Learn more Vehicle type and sizeLarger and heavier vehicles take more deck space and weight allowance on the carrier.Learn more Open, enclosed, or top-loadedOpen transport is the standard choice; an enclosed carrier costs more and shields the vehicle from weather and road debris.Learn more Pickup and delivery accessRural or hard-to-reach addresses can add to the price; a wide, legal curb keeps it simple.Learn more Season and timingDepending on your route, the time of year adds a seasonality factor; flexible dates help.Learn more Speed of deliveryExpedited pickup windows and direct routes are available for faster delivery at a higher rate.Learn more
Our Santa Clara car shipping specialists can walk you through which factors matter most for your shipment. Calculate your Santa Clara car shipping cost
Door-to-door in Santa Clara

Door-to-Door Car Shipping in Santa Clara: Neighborhoods and ZIP Codes We Serve

Santa Clara is flat, gridded, and hemmed in by US-101, Interstate 880, and State Route 237, with the San Tomas, Lawrence, and Central expressways running through the middle of it. For a 75-foot carrier that means level curbs nearly everywhere and easy staging on De La Cruz Boulevard and Bowers Avenue. The exceptions are the Old Quad's short blocks around the Mission, the apartment garages along El Camino Real, and the stadium district on an event day.

The Old Quad & downtown

Old Quad · Santa Clara University · Mission Santa Clara · Franklin Square · Santa Clara station · Civic Center

Narrow blocks parked on both sides around the university and the Mission; the driver picks El Camino Real or a wider cross street.

North Santa Clara & the stadium district

Rivermark · Levi's Stadium · Great America · Mission College · Great America Parkway · Tasman Drive

On a 49ers game day or a stadium concert, Tasman Drive and Great America Parkway fill up, so pickups are scheduled around the event.

The campuses & the expressways

Golden Triangle · Mission College Boulevard · Scott Boulevard · Bowers Avenue · San Tomas Expressway · Lawrence Expressway · Central Expressway

Industrial-width streets around the Intel, Nvidia, and Applied Materials campuses give a carrier room to load at the curb.

Sunnyvale, Cupertino & Milpitas

Sunnyvale · Moffett Park · Cupertino · Rancho Rinconada · Milpitas · Campbell

Wide expressways make these straightforward; the foothill streets above Cupertino and east of Milpitas are the exception.

Santa Clara ZIP codes we serve

Carriers pick up and deliver across 157 ZIP codes in the Santa Clara area, grouped here by postal district.

  • 940xx29 ZIPs
  • 943xx7 ZIPs
  • 944xx5 ZIPs
  • 945xx21 ZIPs
  • 950xx37 ZIPs
  • 951xx58 ZIPs
All 157 Santa Clara-area ZIP codes

940xx: 94002, 94020, 94021, 94022, 94023, 94024, 94025, 94026, 94027, 94028, 94035, 94039, 94040, 94041, 94042, 94043, 94060, 94061, 94062, 94063, 94064, 94065, 94070, 94074, 94085, 94086, 94087, 94088, 94089

943xx: 94301, 94302, 94303, 94304, 94305, 94306, 94309

944xx: 94401, 94402, 94403, 94404, 94497

945xx: 94536, 94537, 94538, 94539, 94540, 94541, 94542, 94543, 94544, 94545, 94550, 94552, 94555, 94557, 94560, 94566, 94568, 94580, 94586, 94587, 94588

950xx: 95002, 95003, 95005, 95006, 95007, 95008, 95009, 95011, 95013, 95014, 95015, 95018, 95026, 95030, 95031, 95032, 95033, 95035, 95036, 95037, 95038, 95041, 95042, 95044, 95050, 95051, 95052, 95053, 95054, 95055, 95056, 95060, 95065, 95066, 95070, 95071, 95073

951xx: 95101, 95103, 95106, 95108, 95109, 95110, 95111, 95112, 95113, 95115, 95116, 95117, 95118, 95119, 95120, 95121, 95122, 95123, 95124, 95125, 95126, 95127, 95128, 95129, 95130, 95131, 95132, 95133, 95134, 95135, 95136, 95138, 95139, 95140, 95141, 95148, 95150, 95151, 95152, 95153, 95154, 95155, 95156, 95157, 95158, 95159, 95160, 95161, 95164, 95170, 95172, 95173, 95190, 95191, 95192, 95193, 95194, 95196

Nearby city pages

Local resources: California DMV Vehicle Registration
On-the-Ground Logistics

What Santa Clara Pickups Actually Look Like

Most handoffs are straightforward door-to-door pickups. These are the exceptions, and how the driver handles them.

The expressway grid

Santa Clara sits on flat valley floor between US-101, Interstate 880, and State Route 237, with the San Tomas, Lawrence, and Central expressways crossing it. Carriers stage along De La Cruz Boulevard and Bowers Avenue, and the arterials are wide enough that a home or an office is usually a curbside pickup with no repositioning at either end.

The Old Quad

The Old Quad is the original grid around Mission Santa Clara and the university, laid out long before car carriers existed: short blocks, cars parked on both sides, and street trees hanging over the pavement. The driver takes the handoff on El Camino Real, The Alameda, or a wider cross street, usually a couple of minutes from your address.

Game days in the stadium district

Levi's Stadium and Great America sit together off Tasman Drive, and on a 49ers home game or a stadium concert the approaches on Great America Parkway and Centennial Boulevard fill hours ahead and stay full afterward. A pickup in Rivermark or the stadium district gets scheduled for the morning, a weekday, or a street outside the ring.

Apartment garages and campus lots

A lot of Santa Clara lives in apartment and condo complexes along El Camino Real, Homestead Road, and Scott Boulevard, where the parking sits in a low garage a carrier cannot enter, and the tech campuses run controlled lots with a security desk. In both cases the driver meets you on the street outside or in a nearby surface lot.

How it works

How does vehicle transport to and from Santa Clara work?

how does vehicle transport to and from Santa Clara work
  1. 1

    Get your car shipping quote

    Enter your pickup and delivery details and your Santa Clara vehicle transport price appears on screen in seconds. Choose open-carrier shipping, the most popular and cost-effective option, or an enclosed carrier for additional protection.

  2. 2

    Vehicle pickup

    Book online or with a transport coordinator and pick a date. On pickup day your vehicle is inspected, carefully loaded onto the carrier, and you can track the status of your shipment online at any time.

  3. 3

    Vehicle delivery

    On delivery day your vehicle is safely offloaded and a final inspection confirms it arrived in the same condition as when it was picked up.

Read the full guide to how auto transport works
Getting Ready

Before the carrier arrives in Santa Clara

Three things to handle between booking and pickup day. They take an hour in total and make both handoffs smooth.

1

Schedule in advance

Book 7–14 days ahead for the best rates, and 2–3 weeks during peak season, when carrier space is tightest.

2

Prep and empty the vehicle

Wash the car, leave about a quarter tank of fuel, and remove personal items. Anything left inside is not protected against loss or damage in transit.

3

Inspect at pickup and delivery

Walk around the vehicle with the driver at both ends, photograph its condition, and note anything new on the Bill of Lading before signing.

The Santa Clara Story

Who Ships Cars in Santa Clara, and Why

The shipments Santa Clara generates most, and the service built for each.

Where the chip companies sitIntel is headquartered on Mission College Boulevard, Applied Materials on Bowers Avenue, and Nvidia on San Tomas Expressway, and the assignment cycles at those campuses move households in and out of Santa Clara year round. A company relocation gets one coordinator, and the second car often ships while the family flies.Corporate relocation shipping Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara University has stood on The Alameda since 1851, built around Mission Santa Clara, and Mission College sits north of the freeway near the stadium. Move-in falls in late August and move-out in May, which is exactly when the streets around the Old Quad are at their tightest.College car shipping Moffett Federal AirfieldThe 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard flies out of Moffett Federal Airfield, a few minutes northwest of Santa Clara off US-101. Guard and reserve families move on orders like anyone else, and the handoff happens at the home address or outside the airfield gate, never on the flight line.Military car shipping Cars arriving through OaklandVehicles imported into Northern California come in through the Port of Oakland, and they are released to a freight forwarder's yard or a bonded lot outside the terminal, never to a carrier at the dock. From there the run down the bay to Santa Clara is the last leg, and a high-value car makes it enclosed.Enclosed auto transport
Santa Clara pickups and deliveries

Shipping a car to Santa Clara

Inbound Santa Clara auto transport ends at your door in Santa Clara or in The Old Quad & downtown, North Santa Clara & the stadium district, The campuses & the expressways. The carrier comes in with a delivery window set once the truck is a day out, and the driver checks the vehicle with you against the condition recorded at pickup before you sign for it.

If you are moving in, the quote is the same whether the car rides ahead of you or after you; California registration comes afterwards, and the California DMV links in the pickup section above cover that paperwork.

An SUV being driven down the ramps off an open carrier at delivery

Shipping a car from Santa Clara

Outbound, Santa Clara auto transport starts with one quote for the exact vehicle and dates. A transport coordinator assigns the carrier, confirms the pickup date, and from then on the driver is your contact for timing.

Open transport is the standard choice for a daily driver leaving California; enclosed transport is there for a car that should arrive without weather or road debris on it. Either way the price you see is for your exact vehicle, not a class average.

An SUV being driven up the ramps onto an open carrier at the curb
The RoadRunner Advantage

The RoadRunner Advantage for Santa Clara Auto Transport

Top rated auto shipping

Top-Rated Auto Shipping

Thousands of verified 5-star reviews for vehicle shipping done right.

Door-to-door car shipping

Nationwide Door-to-Door Service

Direct service to and from any residential or business location in the US.

Licensed and bonded, cargo insured

Licensed, Bonded & Cargo Insured

A licensed and bonded auto transport broker; every carrier in the network carries cargo insurance.

No up front deposit required

No Up-Front Deposit Required

You pay nothing until a carrier is confirmed and your pickup is scheduled.

Extended office hours

Extended Office Hours

Transport coordinators are available weekdays, 9 AM to 10 PM ET, and Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM ET.

Online shipment tracking

24/7 Online Shipment Tracking

Track the status of your shipment online anytime at your convenience.

Service Type

Open or Enclosed Transport for Santa Clara?

Open car transport is the standard choice for most shipments and the most economical way to ship a daily driver, SUV, or truck. Your car rides with 8–10 others on a multi-vehicle trailer, driven on via built-in ramps and secured to the deck for the trip — the same way dealers move new inventory. See open auto transport for details.

Enclosed car shipping earns its premium of roughly 50% when the vehicle itself calls for it: luxury, classic, and exotic cars, a vehicle fresh off the dealer lot with no road miles, or anything you would not want exposed to weather and road debris. If you're weighing the two, our guide to the difference between enclosed and open auto transport covers it in detail.

Expedited shipping is also available when the calendar is not negotiable: guaranteed pickup windows and direct driver routes that get your vehicle there faster. It is the option time-sensitive moves lean on, from military relocations to students starting a new semester.

Sports car being loaded into an enclosed auto transport trailerShipping something special?White-glove protection for high-value vehiclesFully enclosed trailers shield luxury, classic, and exotic cars from weather, road salt, and debris the whole way.Explore Enclosed Car Shipping
Tips

Tips for shipping a car to or from Santa Clara

1

Keep the pickup window flexible

A two- to three-day window lets the dispatcher place your car on the first carrier passing through; a fixed single day is the most expensive way to book.

2

Name a second contact for the handoff

Someone over 18 has to release and accept the vehicle, hand over the keys and sign the inspection reports. If you cannot be at the Santa Clara address yourself, name a person you trust at booking.

3

Say so if the car does not run

Inoperable vehicles ship on a carrier with a winch, for an additional fee and usually a slightly longer wait for the right truck. Mention it at quote time so the assignment is right the first time.

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It can. On 49ers home games and stadium concerts, Tasman Drive, Great America Parkway, and the Centennial Boulevard approaches fill up hours before the gates open and stay full afterward, and much of the surrounding lot space goes to event parking. If your address is in Rivermark or the stadium district, the driver schedules the pickup for the morning, for a weekday, or moves the handoff to a street outside the busy ring. The driver confirms the exact spot with you by phone before pickup.
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